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On the Normal and the Pathological

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  • © 1978

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  1. Georges Canguilhem
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Part of the book series: Studies in the History of Modern Science (SHMS, volume 3)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Essay on Some Problems Concerning the Normal and the Pathological (1943)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Preface to the Second Edition (1950)

      • Georges Canguilhem
      Pages 3-5

    3. Introduction

      • Georges Canguilhem
      Pages 7-8

    4. Is the Pathological State Merely a Quantitative Modification of the Normal State?

      1. Introduction to the Problem
        • Georges Canguilhem
        Pages 11-16
      2. Auguste Comte and ‘Broussais’s Principle’
        • Georges Canguilhem
        Pages 17-28
      3. Claude Bernard and Experimental Pathology
        • Georges Canguilhem
        Pages 29-45
      4. The Conceptions of René Leriche
        • Georges Canguilhem
        Pages 46-53
      5. Implications of the Theory
        • Georges Canguilhem
        Pages 54-60

    5. Do Sciences of the Normal and the Pathological Exist?

      1. Introduction to the Problem
        • Georges Canguilhem
        Pages 63-68
      2. A Critical Examination of Certain Concepts: The Normal, Anomaly, and Disease; The Normal and the Experimental
        • Georges Canguilhem
        Pages 69-85
      3. Norm and Average
        • Georges Canguilhem
        Pages 86-104
      4. Disease, Cure, Health
        • Georges Canguilhem
        Pages 105-118
      5. Physiology and Pathology
        • Georges Canguilhem
        Pages 119-135
      6. Conclusion
        • Georges Canguilhem
        Pages 137-138

  3. New Reflections on the Normal and the Pathological

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Twenty Years Later …

      • Georges Canguilhem
      Pages 141-143

    3. From the Social to the Vital

      • Georges Canguilhem
      Pages 145-158

    4. On Organic Norms in Man

      • Georges Canguilhem
      Pages 159-170

    5. A New Concept in Pathology: Error

      • Georges Canguilhem
      Pages 171-179
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by MICHEL FOUCAULT Everyone knows that in France there are few logicians but many historians of science; and that in the 'philosophical establishment' - whether teaching or research oriented - they have occupied a considerable position. But do we know precisely the importance that, in the course of these past fifteen or twenty years, up to the very frontiers of the establishment, a 'work' like that of Georges Canguilhem can have had for those very people who were separ­ ated from, or challenged, the establishment? Yes, I know, there have been noisier theatres: psychoanalysis, Marxism, linguistics, ethnology. But let us not forget this fact which depends, as you will, on the sociology of French intellectual environments, the functioning of our university institutions or our system of cultural values: in all the political or scientific discussions of these strange sixty years past, the role of the 'philosophers' - I simply mean those who had received their university training in philosophy department- has been important: perhaps too important for the liking of certain people. And, directly or indirectly, all or almost all these philosophers have had to 'come to terms with' the teaching and books of Georges Canguilhem. From this, a paradox: this man, whose work is austere, intentionally and carefully limited to a particular domain in the history of science, which in any case does not pass for a spectacular discipline, has somehow found him­ self present in discussions where he himself took care never to figure.

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